Stock Market Crash Or Correction? It’s All About Future Corporate Profits Does the stock market drop this month (Aug.,2015) indicate a coming crash or correction? This question is debated among investors and discussed all over financial and secular media. Investors, I believe, need to focus on one thing, and one thing only – corporate profits!

Everyone wants to know, “What’s the market gonna do?”. This question is meant to elicit a prediction for the next week, month or year, as if the person being asked “knows something” the person asking doesn’t. On the other hand, maybe it’s just a conversation opener, like “How’re you doing?, or “Hey man (dude) what’s

Investors have asked me to summarize Strategic Stock Accumulation Strategy (SSA). I certainly understand their reasoning. Is the relatively short time required to learn the system worth the effort? After reading and evaluating a short synopsis, does the strategy sound compelling enough to warrant further portfolio consideration? With that question in focus, and to

It’s the asset allocation, stupid! This is the mantra, maybe not so ‘in your face’ , implied by almost all investment advisors today. The answer to the titled question is: specific individualized stock/bond-cash ratios are extremely important. But, what is the best stock/bond ratio , within the asset allocation, for individual groups of nvestors? The

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Fear is the second of the two most powerful emotions elicited by the stock market. The other, of course, is greed. Humans tend to exaggerate these emotions when events tigger the onset of either one. In this post, I want to discuss this negative emotion, fear. Fear of loss (of almost any kind), according to

Patient investors do best in the stock market. Why is this true? It sounds intuitive, but this is actually counter-intuitive for many investors once the “rubber hits the road” during a severe bear market. Most investors think they have to “do something”, which, for most of the time means selling stock. Usually, this is a

The term “animal spirits” was coined by John Maynard Keynes, highly regarded early twentieth century British economist. He used it to describe the buying behavior of investors who showed a herd-like mentality of irrational exhuberance whenever stocks were in a strong bull market. When the stock market continues to advance and investors continue buying overvalued

The phrase “black swan” was originally chosen by the old Roman poet, Juvenal, to describe “a rare bird in the lands, and very much like a black swan”. When the term was originally translated into English, the black swan was thought to be a myth, occurring only in the imagination. Five hundred years ago in